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                    [Title] => My fondest memories of Direk Marilou
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I was watching GMA NewsTV’s Jessica Soho in her weekday 9 p.m. State of the Nation news program last Monday when the news about the passing of Direk Marilou Diaz-Abaya was reported.

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In this Information Age, Filipinos are encountering a personal net loss when they unwittingly lose track of the more important pursuit of values and wisdom in their mad scramble to acquire data and updates.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133540 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315173 [Title] => 8th death anniversary of Francisco ‘Soc’ Rodrigo [Summary] => As an Atenean, there were certain older students I came to admire. One of them was Francisco "Soc" Rodrigo. His family had given him the nickname "Paquito", but in the Ateneo, people kept calling him "Soc" after Socrates, the Athenian philosopher and teacher, and that eventually became his official nickname. The two books that have influenced me most in my life were Don Quijote de la Mancha and Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Ateneo, Cyrano was not only a great book but the idol. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159122 [Title] => Fr. Reuter as I knew him [Summary] => "In memory of the days when you climbed the stairs of the Ateneo, to win debates, and begin a beautiful career!" Those were the words which Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J., inscribed in the first page of the book, "At 3:00 A.M.," during the book-launching at the St. Paul College in Quezon City. The red-letter day also marked two significant events: the celebration of Fr. [DatePublished] => 2002-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 132300 [Title] => Secretary Alberto Romulo’s executive book dec [Summary] => Even when he was a young boy living in Tarlac, Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo had already wanted to see the world. He had cousins living in various parts of the globe and the country, and he wondered – perhaps not without envy – how it would be like to see places of history, to meet men of courage.

In that sleepy hometown that produced a great statesman, Romulo traveled without even leaving town. He went to the library.
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